| ILOSTYOU | "Repeat that, I was in a bad cell" |
| BEDCHEM | Sabrina Carpenter song that begins "I was in a sheer dress the day that we met" |
| MISSEDTHECUT | "I was in a serious relationship with a hippie, but he ..." |
| MCGANN | Paul, who I was in a 1980s British comedy (6) |
| SPOTTY | Like bad cell coverage? |
| ALIBI | It proves that I was somewhere else! I am in Bali! (5) |
| TODRINK | In Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, WC Fields said, "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me ... That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for" (2,5) |
| DRINK | In Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, WC Fields said, "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to ... That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for" |
| WCFIELDS | In Never Give A Sucker An Even Break he said, "I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for" (1,1,6) |
| IOWA | "It is true that I was born in ___, but I can't speak for my twin sister" (Abigail Van Buren) |
| TATTERS | “Before this campaign started, it was said that I was facing political oblivion, my career in ____” (Peter Mandelson, after his 2001 re-election as MP for Hartlepool) |
| MCKNIGHT | "... and just like that, I was a ___!..." |
| ATTEST | Bear witness that I was at that top game (6) |
| BRIANCLOUGH | Former football manager who claimed "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" |
| DRYDEN | "Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings..." poet John ___ |
| ICILY | Coldly. Did you hear that I was stupid? (5) |
| SONNET | "O, never say that I was false of heart ...," e.g. |
| BOLIVIAN | On the outskirts of Icomb, the van I was in crashed into the side of a lorry -- three people were injured, and one was from a South American country (8) |
| LANE | Nathan who said "The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater" |
| AREA | "I was in the ___ so I thought I'd drop by" |
